| Consciously exploitative employers are bad, an extortionist dentist is bad, the company lawyer's maneuverings are heartless blows to humanity, a Nurse Ratched-type supervisor is irredeemably, loathsomely ludicrous. |
| Yet a corrupt cadre of Spartan priests, given to slobbering loathsomely over beautiful dancing girls, tries to tell Leonidas that the time is not propitious for Sparta to go to war. |
| Why do most of Haggis's characters act as loathsomely as they do? |
| As her jockstrap of a partner, Kieran Bew is loathsomely believable, a bloke-streak, long jawed, rolling shouldered, gloomily strong. |
| He was leashed to a vile white dog, loathsomely fat, fiendishly ill-natured, gloatingly intractable toward his despised conductor. |
| Sometimes even the most loathsomely effective Machiavellians have a bad day at the office. |
